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Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Re: Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Post by taneq »

bpicolo wrote: post #13
elil17 wrote: post #2

I'm impressed with Cortex - All industry leaders (Google, Siri, Alexa) answer "Who killed John Wilkes Booth" with "Abraham Lincoln," but this gives the correct answer. It shows that it has a deeper understanding of it's data sources.

> What is the most dangerous bear? Winnie - The - Pooh

'Oh bother,' said Pooh, triggering the failsafe device. 'They caught on quicker than I expected.'

Re: Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Post by patelajay285 »

alttab wrote: post #41

How is this like, or better than Evi, which has origins in 2007 and is now part of Alexa according to wikipedia? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_(software)

Good question! We mentioned this in another comment, but a lot of the comments on this thread are about our Cortex Knowledge Graph API, but we actually think of the Sapien Language Engine API as our main product.

We think being able to understand the semantic meaning behind language through our graph of relationships and entities in a sentence are going to be critical in building more robust conversational interfaces. So companies we are talking to now include companies who want to use it for natural language search or messaging apps.

Of course, we think the knowledge graph is useful as well in democratizing the technology since WolframAlpha is absurdly expensive ($25-50 CPM) and the Google KnowledgeGraph API is limited to 100,000 queries a day with no option to pay for more and doesn't handle natural language question answering.

Re: Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Post by jbardnz »

patelajay285 wrote: post #37
int64 wrote: post #36

Will the document summarization API summarize and rewrite the content or just a summary of the original content without a rewrite?

Yes, it will perform abstractive summarization (re-writing the language in the text) vs. just extractive summarization, which just pulls out high-importance sentences from text. But we'll offer both just in case.

I have been looking for an abstractive summarization API for quite some time, any idea when you will be releasing this. If you are planning any sort of beta I would love to be part of it :)

Re: Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Post by patelajay285 »

anathema-device wrote: post #20

Very interesting. Needs to account for things like low literacy in certain areas. Medical literacy is a big gap for a lot of people. Asked "What is myocardial infarction? Correct article returned. Asked "What is myocardial infraction?" Got article for Civil infraction. "What is hyperkalemia?" returned a result. "What is high potassium?" No result.

Thanks for trying it out. We're not intending for it to be extremely domain specific at this point, but as we add more data sources our coverage will get better.

Re: Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Post by alttab »

patelajay285 wrote: post #43
alttab wrote: post #41

How is this like, or better than Evi, which has origins in 2007 and is now part of Alexa according to wikipedia? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evi_(software)

Good question! We mentioned this in another comment, but a lot of the comments on this thread are about our Cortex Knowledge Graph API, but we actually think of the Sapien Language Engine API as our main product. We think being able to understand the semantic meaning behind language through our graph of relationships and entities in a sentence are going to be critical in building more robust conversational interfaces…

Got it. So really, its a piece of what Evi did, but you are making that a service.

It will be interesting to see how other people apply this without competing with Google, Amazon, or Apple directly.

Re: Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Post by patelajay285 »

jbardnz wrote: post #44
patelajay285 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it will perform abstractive summarization (re-writing the language in the text) vs. just extractive summarization, which just pulls out high-importance sentences from text. But we'll offer both just in case.

I have been looking for an abstractive summarization API for quite some time, any idea when you will be releasing this. If you are planning any sort of beta I would love to be part of it :)

Sign up for a developer account to stay updated and shoot me an email at ajay@plasticity.ai if you'd be interested in sharing your use case, we'd love to learn more.

Re: Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

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Post by patelajay285 »

alttab wrote: post #46
patelajay285 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question! We mentioned this in another comment, but a lot of the comments on this thread are about our Cortex Knowledge Graph API, but we actually think of the Sapien Language Engine API as our main product. We think being able to understand the semantic meaning behind language through our graph of relationships and entities in a sentence are going to be critical in building more robust conversational interfaces…

Got it. So really, its a piece of what Evi did, but you are making that a service. It will be interesting to see how other people apply this without competing with Google, Amazon, or Apple directly.

Yes, exactly, we think there are a range of applications that will need this kind of common sense information on-hand in the not too distant future.
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